(Posted 8-2-99)
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Dr. Ceola Baber

GREENSBORO -- Dr. Ceola Ross Baber, an associate professor of curriculum and instruction at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been selected to serve a three-year term on the board of examiners of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

Baber is one of 430 educators nationally who are serving on the board. Membership includes teacher educators, administrators, state and local policy makers and subject matter specialists. As a member, she will serve on small, site-visit committees assigned by the board of examiners. Those committees will make assessments of the quality of teacher education programs across the country. Baber recently completed a training workshop for the program in Detroit.

Baber has been a faculty member in the UNCG School of Education since 1989 and is serving as acting associate dean for teacher education and school relationships, a position which coordinates teacher education programs across the campus. She received a UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award in 1993. Her research areas include ethnic minority student achievement, multicultural teacher education and secondary education.

She is one of 15 teachers who are serving on the national Social Studies Standards Committee of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium. She has served on the editorial board of "Theory and Research in Social Education, which is the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) College and University Faculty Assembly. Baber was president of the African American Educators Special Interest Group of NCSS. A graduate of California State University at Sacramento, she holds the master’s degree from Stanford University and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University.

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